If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Quotations
Music
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
